Petition to Bring SegWit to Coinbase Nears 5000 Signatures

Petition to Bring SegWit to Coinbase Nears 5000 Signatures

Bitcoin community figures have championed a petition asking Coinbase to prioritize SegWit implementation which has gathered over 5,000 signatures (at press time).

‘Your Customers Want This,’ Bitcoin Tells Coinbase

Online trader Vortex among others urged users to sign the Change.org petition on social media, which requests that the US exchange treat SegWit as its next project.

Previously, Coinbase had announced SegWit was third in its development queue, leading to criticism that users would continue paying unnecessarily high fees in the meantime.

CEO Brian Armstrong had given the technology even less attention, previously telling mainstream media it was not even a highly requested upgrade.

“Brian Armstrong stated in his Bloomberg interview that SegWit is ‘probably not in the top 5 next things that our customers are requesting’, but I bring this petition to you to argue that this isn’t the case. Your customers would like to see this feature implemented as a top priority in 2018,” petition creator Lee Wallis writes.

At the time Vortex brought the idea to wider attention Sunday, only around 700 people had signed it, the figure since rising dramatically to just under 4,500.